Archive: 13 February 2018

13 Feb 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Zambia has lost sovereignty to China – Saviour

United Progressive Party (UPP) president Saviour Chishimba says Zambia can easily be wiped out because of its careless leadership which has allowed foreigners to dominate the country. And Chishimba says Zambians have now waken up […]

13 Feb 2018 | Sipilisiwe Ncube

PF eager to unveil KKIA milestone

Works at the new Kenneth Kaunda International Airport terminal which is scheduled to be launched in October 2019 have impressed Transport and Communications Minister Brian Mushimba and his colleagues in Cabinet. Speaking during a KKIA […]

13 Feb 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

UPND regard HH as their god – Antonio

Antonio Mwanza says UPND members worship their leader Hakainde Hichilema like he is their god. And Mwanza says President Edgar Lungu is the only Head of State who has put in place tangible measures to […]

13 Feb 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

Justifying President’s gaffe won’t help PF – Dickson Jere

Former president Rupiah Banda’s press aide Dickson Jere says in certain situations, apologising for mistakes made by the Head of State is better than trying to explain everything away as doing so only sustains the […]

13 Feb 2018 | Mukosha Funga Njenga

Nothing wrong with Lungu’s ubomba mwibala alya mwibala statement – Ministers

Minister of Housing Ronald Chitotela and his Home Affairs counterpart Stephen Kampyongo have swooped in to defend President Edgar Lungu’s blunder during a PF fundraising dinner in Ndola following massive backlash. On Saturday, President Lungu […]

13 Feb 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

There’s nothing wrong with PF campaigns – YALI

Young African Leaders Initiative president Andrew Ntewewe says there is nothing sinister about ministers going to their constituencies to campaign because they are supposed to mingle with their voters on a regular basis. In an […]

13 Feb 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

7NDP will fail if citizens’ mindsets don’t change – PMRC

The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) says a negative mindset among citizens is one of the key national constraints to development and social transformation. According to a report compiled by PMRC, under executive director […]

13 Feb 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

President retires civil servants in national interest as punishment – Sinkamba

Green Party president Peter Sinkamba says dismissing or retiring public officers in public interest without showing cause for doing so is unconstitutional and illegal in Zambia. In a statement, Sunday, Sinkamba argued that the ‘retirement […]

13 Feb 2018 | Mirriam Chabala

Commercialising FRA will stunt Agric sector growth – Stakeholders

A group of civil society organisations and farmer associations says government’s decision to commercialise the Food Reserve Agency because that will severely undermine the development of Zambia’s agricultural sector. During a consultative workshop held on […]

13 Feb 2018 | Zondiwe Mbewe

Cholera excuse for not reopening UNZA, CBU is fake – Mulongoti

People’s Party president Mike Mulongoti says the Cholera excuse for government’s failure to reopen the University of Zambia and Copperbelt University in not genuine because students hostels have always been inhabitable. In an interview with […]